Tim Burton's Bodies

Dr Stella Hockenhull is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly is Reader in Screen Studies and Director of Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture at the University of Wolverhampton.

This exemplary cross-disciplinary collection addressing Burton’s films through the lens of the somatic, demonstrates considerable empathy for, and sympathy with, his miscellany of outsiders, grotesques, and monsters. Whether animated, animal, or aberrant, Burton’s corporeal and material menagerie is explored with insight and originality. This fresh focus on Burton’s preoccupation with the ‘weird is normal’ serves to show how unruly otherness and alternative perspectives shed a penetrating light upon our assumptions about the human condition.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tim Burton’s Bodies - Stella Hockenhull and Fran Pheasant-KellyPart One: Animated Bodies1. Transformation: Metamorphosis, Animation and Fairy Tale in the Work of Tim Burton - Samantha Moore2. Agreeing to be a ‘Burton Body’: Developing the Corpse Bride Story - Emily Mantell3. Tim Burton’s Unruly Animation - Christopher Holliday4. Corpse Bride: Animation, Animated Corpses, and the Gothic - Elif BoyacioğluPart Two: Creaturely Bodies5. Burton, Apes and Race: The Creaturely Politics of Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes - Christopher Parr6. Dead Pets’ Society: Gothic Animal Bodies in the Films of Tim Burton - Rebecca Lloyd7. Too Dark for Disney: Tim Burton, Children’s Horror and Pet Death - Claire Parkinson8. Monstrous Masculinity: ‘Becoming Centaur’ in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow - Stella Hockenhull9. Anomalous Bodies in Tim Burton’s Bestiary: Reimagining Dumbo - Fran Pheasant-KellyPart Three: Corporeal Bodies10. All of Us Cannibals: Eating Bodies in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Elsa Colombani11. ‘I Might Just Split a Seam’: Fabric and Somatic Integrity in the Work of Tim Burton - Cath Davies12. The Semiotics of a Broken Body: Tim Burton’s Use of Synecdoche - Helena Bassil-Morozow13. Art and the Organ Without a Body: ‘The Jar’ as Burton’s Artistic Manifesto - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns14. ‘Hell Here!’: Tim Burton’s Destruction of Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns - Peter PiatkowskiPart Four: Gothic, Monstrous and Peculiar Bodies15. The Grotesque Social Outcast in the Films of Tim Burton - Michael Lipiner and Thomas J. Cobb16. ‘A Giant Man Can’t Have an Ordinary-Sized Life’: On Tim Burton’s Big Fish - José Duarte and Ana Rita Martins17. Tim Burton’s Curious Bodies in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: A Contemporary Tale of the Grotesque - Marie Liénard-Yeterian18. Asexuality and Social Anxiety: The Perils of a Peculiar Body - Alexandra Hackett19. Burton’s Benevolently Monstrous Frankensteins - Robert GealBibliographyFilmographyIndex